Prof. Amnon Cavari (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is associate professor and head of the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University. Prof. Cavari's main research interests are in the interrelationship between elected officials and public opinion in the United States and in Israel.

Prof. Cavari is also head of the research group American Public Opinion toward Israel (APOI), which tracks trends in American elite and mass opinion toward Israel, and co-chair of the Israeli Policy Agendas Project. He is the author of American Public Opinion toward Israel (2021) The Party Politics of Presidential Rhetoric (2017), co-editor of two books on presidential elections in the United States (2012 and 2016), and author of several journal articles.